“Picture a patient on his way to the doctor’s office. He dallies, distracted here and there by interesting sights, a newspaper headline. Then, as the novelty wears off, he becomes conscious of his illness and continues on to the doctor’s. For the next hour or two he swings back and forth between distraction and pain, until he finally realizes he had better get on his way to the cure.
The human quest for wholeness is like that. We are distracted by thrills, impulsive desires, false doctrines, and most of all, by our pretense that everything is just fine, when we secretly know everything is all wrong.
But at one point or another, the pain becomes unendurable and our pretenses are shattered. With a sigh of relief, we stop playing and head for the sure cure at the office of reality.”
–Vernon Howard, The Power of your Supermind, Chap. 1, p. 8
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